Mississippi County is one of the areas in Northeast Arkansas with the best chance of seeing the most accumulation of wintry mix, forecasters have said.

The Blytheville Police Department has its own preparations for the winter weather and certain problems they typically see.

Chief Ross Thompson said winter weather does add different challenges to everyday policing, but they have put a few all-wheel drive vehicles in their fleet and are as prepared as they can be.

Thompson said while they’ve seen multiple wrecks on overpasses because of winter weather in the past, they will be paying extra attention to those.

“We will have officers go out and kind of check that, test it and keep an eye on that so we can report back,” Thompson said. “Plus, if they do start to ice up and we see some slick conditions, we’ll try to put an officer up the road with some lights on to try to get the drivers’ attention to slow them down before they actually get there.”

Thompson said it depends on how bad the weather gets if they’ll need to call in extra resources.

He asks that if you don’t have to get out on the roads, you need to stay at home.

Health officials say they are aggressively combatting an atypical and unusually severe hepatitis A outbreak in northeastern Arkansas that has infected at least 85 people and caused at least one death since February.

Health officials say they are aggressively combatting an atypical and unusually severe hepatitis A outbreak in northeastern Arkansas that has infected at least 85 people and caused at least one death since February.

41-year-old William Wineke of the 600 block of Kinzer Street has a warrant for his arrest for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. (Source: Poplar Bluff Police Department)

A Poplar Bluff man is wanted for being a non-compliant sex offender. 41-year-old William Wineke of the 600 block of Kinzer Street has a warrant for his arrest for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.

A Poplar Bluff man is wanted for being a non-compliant sex offender. 41-year-old William Wineke of the 600 block of Kinzer Street has a warrant for his arrest for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.

A “zero-tolerance policy” put into effect by the Trump administration increased criminal prosecutions of people caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally, which led to adults being jailed and their children separated from them.

A “zero-tolerance policy” put into effect by the Trump administration increased criminal prosecutions of people caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally, which led to adults being jailed and their children separated from them.